The Dancer With A Dodgy Knee (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781805413721)

Dance is everything to Charlene (Charlie) Whittaker. Life itself.

She made her first stage appearance to rapturous applause at the age of six, and her natural talent inevitably leads her onto the stage... and a glittering career as on elf the greatest dancers in the world.

Know as 'The Dancing Queen of Musicals', she appears in 'London's West End on Broadway and in films'- and even appears in a Royal Variety Show. There is glamour in her exotic life, and a series of romances with her dancing partners and musicians- Charlie's glamorous world seems complete.

Then... disaster.

She discovers a cancerous growth in one knee. The Big C.

Her dancing days are over, and in an attempt to get away from the glitz of show biz she builds a new life helping at a small dance school- where she discovers the girl she thinks can take over her role as Queen of the Musicals.